· Private foundation
The Turnip Top Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCES (2) | $21,500 |
| CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE | $20,000 |
| EASTERN SIERRA ARTISTS | $19,750 |
| BISHOP ROTARY FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FDN | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| REED COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| RED HEN PRESS | $6,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDEN'S RELIEF FUND | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MAYFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MERRILL HOUSE | $5,000 |
| IMPACT ASSETS (4) | $4,500 |
| NARGS | $3,000 |
| SOUTHWEST NORDIC SKI CLUB | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +443%
- BRBishop Rotary Community Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +52% · 68% of their budget
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS4× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +435%
Funded once
- TLTHE LENFEST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -100%
FRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +5%- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION (3)one grant, 2023 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
To respect and support the traditions and creative expressions of the native american peoples, and to present exhibitions and other public programs relating to them; to collect and document contemporary expressions of the navajo people…
Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toniic Institute and the most unlike its peers is The Lenfest Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC ↗
- Who funds Bishop Rotary Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS ↗
- Who funds CLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds RED HEN PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds USA CYCLING DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENDO INC ↗
- Who funds Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds TONIIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Partnerships For Change ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Slf Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust · John H Hart Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Turnip Top Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Crescendo Inc — 99% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.